Trump on stage in Washington DC, three months after original event was interrupted by gunfire
Represenatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, will visit the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis today to conduct a congressional oversight visit.
The Democratic lawmakers are visiting the site of sustained protests earlier this year against the immigration crackdown that swept the state of Minnesota, and resulted in the fatal shootings of two US citizens by federal immigration agents.
Continue reading...SAN FRANCISCO (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Het Amerikaanse chipbedrijf Nvidia investeert 1 miljard dollar in de Zuid-Koreaanse internet- en cloudprovider Naver om de bouw van een AI-datacenter in Zuid-Korea te financieren. Naver gaat de omvang van de faciliteit meer dan verdrievoudigen, aldus Nvidia. De locatie zal gebruikmaken van Nvidia's hardware voor kunstmatige intelligentie.
Daarnaast werkt Nvidia samen met het Zuid-Koreaanse conglomeraat SK Group aan de bouw van meer dan 2 gigawatt aan AI-datacenters op het Koreaanse schiereiland. Dat is ongeveer de hoeveelheid energie die nodig is om 1,5 miljoen huishoudens van stroom te voorzien. De eerste van deze zogenaamde AI-fabrieken, gebouwd door SK Telecom, wordt volgend jaar in gebruik genomen, aldus Nvidia.
Nvidia hoopt via de nauwere banden met SK Group de toegang tot geheugenchips te verbeteren, die schaars zijn vanwege de wereldwijde uitbouw van AI-datacenters. Het dochterbedrijf SK Hynix en de Zuid-Koreaanse concurrent Samsung Electronics zijn de twee grootste leveranciers van cruciale componenten voor geheugenchips.
De recente aankondigingen van Nvidia vallen samen met een bezoek van de Zuid-Koreaanse president Lee Jae Myung aan de VS. Hij woont er onder meer evenementen in Silicon Valley bij.
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft een presidentieel decreet uitgevaardigd om bezoekers te waarschuwen voor onjuiste historische informatie in het National Museum of American History in Washington. De instelling valt onder het Smithsonian Institution, dat bestaat uit 21 musea die gewijd zijn aan de Amerikaanse geschiedenis en cultuur.
Het decreet roept ambtenaren op om "tijdelijke borden te plaatsen" op openbare wandelpaden rondom het gebouw om "bezoekers te laten weten dat de museumtentoonstellingen moeten worden gerenoveerd" om "accurate informatie over de Amerikaanse geschiedenis" weer te geven.
Trumps decreet verwijst naar een rapport van het Witte Huis uit maart, waarin het Smithsonian ervan wordt beschuldigd de "constructieve rol van het christelijk geloof" onvoldoende te benadrukken. "Witte, mannelijke en christelijke Amerikanen worden regelmatig afgeschilderd als de vermeende belichaming van onderdrukkende machtsstructuren", aldus het rapport.
In augustus 2025 bekritiseerde Trump het Smithsonian omdat het de gruwelen van de slavernij benadrukte, terwijl er "niets over succes" te zien zou zijn.
Paramount Skydance has agreed to postpone its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger until five days after an antitrust trial or June 1, 2027, whichever comes first. The agreement with a 12-state coalition led by California effectively shelves the deal for months while states argue it would reduce competition in cable and theatrical markets. Variety reports: Paramount had been keen to close the deal before Sept. 30, when it will begin to incur a $7-million-a-day "ticking fee" to be paid to Warner Bros. investors. The agreement is a tacit acknowledgement that that will not happen, barring a settlement with the states. Paramount previously sought a three-day hearing on the injunction motion in late August, hoping to win the judge's blessing to close the deal sometime in early September. But the states resisted that idea, saying they would need more time to take discovery and prepare for a full trial on the merits. The states were due to file their injunction motion on Thursday night, but held off as the two sides held discussions on a path forward. In a statement, the company said the agreement is a "significant win."
"Today's agreement is a significant win because the result is exactly what we have sought from the outset: a direct path to a trial based on the evidence," a Paramount spokesperson said. "This is the fastest and clearest way to prove that this transaction is good for competition, good for consumers, and good for creators, a conclusion dozens of competition authorities around the world have already reached. Plaintiffs' market definitions bear no relationship to the realities of today's marketplace and cannot withstand scrutiny. We look forward to proving our case at trial."
A hearing was scheduled for Aug. 3 in federal court in Oakland, at which point the two sides were expected to argue over the injunction motion. The two sides agreed to cancel that hearing. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin approved the joint stipulation on Friday afternoon, about an hour after it was entered. The Writers Guild of America filed its own motion for an injunction earlier this week, which was also set to be heard on Aug. 3. That motion has been withdrawn, as Paramount has effectively conceded that it will not close the deal until a determination of the merits of the antitrust claims. The parties also agreed to submit a joint stipulation by July 31 on their respective positions on trial scheduling. The states previously proposed to hold the trial in April 2027.
"Today's agreement is a significant win because the result is exactly what we have sought from the outset: a direct path to a trial based on the evidence," a Paramount spokesperson said. "This is the fastest and clearest way to prove that this transaction is good for competition, good for consumers, and good for creators, a conclusion dozens of competition authorities around the world have already reached. Plaintiffs' market definitions bear no relationship to the realities of today's marketplace and cannot withstand scrutiny. We look forward to proving our case at trial."
A hearing was scheduled for Aug. 3 in federal court in Oakland, at which point the two sides were expected to argue over the injunction motion. The two sides agreed to cancel that hearing. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin approved the joint stipulation on Friday afternoon, about an hour after it was entered. The Writers Guild of America filed its own motion for an injunction earlier this week, which was also set to be heard on Aug. 3. That motion has been withdrawn, as Paramount has effectively conceded that it will not close the deal until a determination of the merits of the antitrust claims. The parties also agreed to submit a joint stipulation by July 31 on their respective positions on trial scheduling. The states previously proposed to hold the trial in April 2027.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports. This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a so-called "duress" password built into a phone's software. According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this week following the court's first hearing on Monday, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick is fighting the charges. Tunick's attorneys said that it was unlawful for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seize his phone as he arrived back in the U.S. last year, and that any evidence -- including the alleged wiping of his phone -- should be thrown out.
The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices. Tunick's attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone. The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the contents of that device if entered instead of the user's unlock passcode. Tunick's case also raises ongoing questions about what constitutional rights can be invoked at the border, which the U.S. government has long asserted is not U.S. soil until a person is authorized to enter. Bill Budington, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Runa Sandvik, a digital security expert who works to protect at-risk people as the founder of security consultancy firm Granitt, told TechCrunch that they had not seen similar cases involving the use of duress passwords.
"I have not seen this before, though I've discussed the potential scenario with activists and journalists over the years," said Sandvik. "I think this case serves as a reminder that authorities may argue you knowingly destroyed data, so it's better to not have that data on you when you cross certain borders."
"With a little planning ahead of time, you can always download the data you need once you get to where you're going," said Sandvik.
The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices. Tunick's attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone. The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the contents of that device if entered instead of the user's unlock passcode. Tunick's case also raises ongoing questions about what constitutional rights can be invoked at the border, which the U.S. government has long asserted is not U.S. soil until a person is authorized to enter. Bill Budington, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Runa Sandvik, a digital security expert who works to protect at-risk people as the founder of security consultancy firm Granitt, told TechCrunch that they had not seen similar cases involving the use of duress passwords.
"I have not seen this before, though I've discussed the potential scenario with activists and journalists over the years," said Sandvik. "I think this case serves as a reminder that authorities may argue you knowingly destroyed data, so it's better to not have that data on you when you cross certain borders."
"With a little planning ahead of time, you can always download the data you need once you get to where you're going," said Sandvik.
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A Tesla solar customer went to pull up their lease agreement in their Tesla account this month and found something other than a contract waiting for them: the Book of Enoch, an ancient apocalyptic text about fallen angels.
Not a scanned copy of their agreement. Not an error page. The full text of a roughly 2,000-year-old religious book, sitting exactly where their legally binding solar lease was supposed to be. [...]
When they contacted Tesla support, a representative acknowledged the swap in a chat conversation Electrek reviewed. Tesla confirmed the lease had become the Book of Enoch. What Tesla didn't offer was any real explanation.
For the uninitiated: the Book of Enoch is a Hebrew text from around 200 BCE, cut from most Bibles and considered canonical mainly by the Ethiopian Orthodox church. It's best known for the Watchers, fallen angels who come down and father a race of giants. It is a lot of things. A residential solar lease is not one of them.
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